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    Columbia, 1936.  Directed by 
	Del Lord.  Camera:  Benjamin H. Kline.  With Moe Howard, 
	Larry Fine, Curly Howard, Mildred Harris, Kenneth Harlan, Bud Jamison, Harry 
	Semels, Heinie Conklin, Charles Dorety, Althea Henley, Jack Kenny, Eddie 
	Laughton, Lois Lindsay, Antrim Short, Harry Tenbrook, Hilda Title, Elaine 
	Waters, Blackie Whiteford, Bert Young. |  
	
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			The Stooges open the short sleeping 
			noisily on a train, with Larry and Moe sticking their feet in 
			Curly's face.  When he pounds their dogs, the trio awakens.  
			It turns out they're stowing away on a train bound for Hollywood and 
			have helped themselves to the furniture of someone moving west.  
			"I wonder who loaned us their furniture without knowing it," Larry 
			says.  "If the cops come you'll find out," Moe says. 
			After some solid sight gags involving 
			the cooking of breakfast and ironing of clothes, the boys find 
			themselves at the offices of Carnation Pictures and its general 
			manager, Fuller Rath.  They're mistaken for studio executives 
			and given the authority to disrupt a love scene being filmed by a 
			director named Swinehardt.  When the actors and directors quit, 
			Curly's once again cast in drag, this time as a blonde, his eyebrows 
			plucked with a wrench. 
			Soon the ruse is up, and the boys flee, 
			escaping into a lion's cage.  The lions follow them into a car, 
			which takes off down the street, Curly "woop-woop-wooping" all the 
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The Three StoogesAn Illustrated History,
 by Michael Fleming
 Broadway Books 1999
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